Authorship in Context. From the Theoretical to the Material
Edited by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Polina Mackay
New York, Palgrave Macmillan
2007, 256 p.
Description
This book maps the terrain of Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary marketplace, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture. Gender and (post)colonial issues around authorial identity and literary work are further explored in relation to publishing policies, graphic media, and the Internet.
Author Bio
Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi works in the School of English at Exeter University. Polina Mackay works in the School of English at Birkbeck College.
Table of contents
Introduction; K.Hadjiafxendi & P.Mackay PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORYThe Decline of the Critic; T.Eagleton * PART II: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND THE MARKET PLACE * The Author, the Editor and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg; V.Sage * George Eliot's Aesthetic of Delitescency; K.Hadjiafxendi * Liberal Editing in the Fortnightly Review and the Nineteenth Century; H.Small * PART III: TWENTIETH -CENTURY EXPERIMENTALISM * F.R. Leavis: The Writer, Language, History; M.Bell * Mind that Crowd: Flann O'Brien's Authors; J.Brooker * Authorship in the Writings and Films of William S. Burroughs; P.Mackay * PART IV: POSTMODERN CULTURE * Postmodernism. Criticism and the Graphic Novel; D.Punter * William Gibson: Consumerism and Electronic Authorship; T.Rapatzikou * Towards a Politics of the Small Things: Arundhati Roy and the Decantralisation of Authorship; M.S.Alexandru * Recommended Bibliography * Index